Yangfan Zhang

20 papers A* 4A 1Misc 2Journal 8Unranked 5
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2024 — conf
PRICAI (1)
Yangfan Zhang, Bing Guo
2024 A* conf
MobiCom
Yangfan Zhang, Yaxiong Xie, Zhihao Hui, Hao Jia, Xiaojiang Chen
2023 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Multim.
Xiaodi Guan, Fan Li, Yangfan Zhang, Pamela C. Cosman
2023 — conf
ACL (industry)
Yanan Zhang, Weijie Cui, Yangfan Zhang, Xiaoling Bai, Zhe Zhang, Jin Ma, Xiang Chen, Tianhua Zhou
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Yanan Zhang, Weijie Cui, Yangfan Zhang, Xiaoling Bai, Zhe Zhang, Jin Ma, Xiang Chen, Tianhua Zhou
2023 J jnl
IEEE Access
Weixin Yang, Hongshan Zhao, Yangfan Zhang, Yu Wang, Jieying Chang
2023 Misc conf
NSDI
Xinyi Li, Chao Feng, Xiaojing Wang, Yangfan Zhang, Yaxiong Xie, Xiaojiang Chen
2022 A* conf
MobiCom
Xinyi Li, Chao Feng, Fengyi Song, Chenghan Jiang, Yangfan Zhang, Ke Li, Xinyu Zhang, Xiaojiang Chen
2022 A* conf
EMNLP
Haolin Deng, Yanan Zhang, Yangfan Zhang, Wangyang Ying, Changlong Yu, Jun Gao, Wei Wang, Xiaoling Bai, Nan Yang, Jin Ma, Xiang Chen, Tianhua Zhou
2022 J jnl
CoRR
Haolin Deng, Yanan Zhang, Yangfan Zhang, Wangyang Ying, Changlong Yu, Jun Gao, Wei Wang, Xiaoling Bai, Nan Yang, Jin Ma, Xiang Chen, Tianhua Zhou
2022 J jnl
Medical Image Anal.
Jinkui Hao, Jiang Liu, Ella Pereira, Ri Liu, Jiong Zhang, Yangfan Zhang, Kun Yan, Yan Gong, Jianjun Zheng, Jingfeng Zhang, Yonghuai Liu, Yitian Zhao
2022 A conf
MobiSys
Chao Feng, Yangfan Zhang, Xiaojing Wang, Xinyi Li
2021 J jnl
Sensors
Hong Song, Syed Raza Mehdi, Yangfan Zhang, Yichun Shentu, Qixin Wan, Wenxin Wang, Kazim Raza, Hui Huang
2021 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol.
Fan Li, Yangfan Zhang, Pamela C. Cosman
2021 Misc conf
SenSys
Yangfan Zhang, Xiaojing Wang, Chao Feng, Xinyi Li, Yuan-Ming Cai, Yuhui Ren, Fuwei Wang, Ke Li
2021 A* conf
MobiCom
Chao Feng, Xinyi Li, Yangfan Zhang, Xiaojing Wang, Liqiong Chang, Fuwei Wang, Xinyu Zhang, Xiaojiang Chen
2019 J jnl
CoRR
Yangfan Zhang, Pengfei Wang, Wenping Li, Shunchuan Yang
2018 — conf
ISC2
Yangfan Zhang, Jun Sun
2017 — conf
IALP
Yon Shin Teo, Zihong Yuan, Wee Siong Ng, Yangfan Zhang, Valerie Phangt
2015 — conf
SOSE
Jiaojiao Fu, Yangfan Zhang, Yu Kang

Nicolò Altamura is a security engineer and computer science researcher specializing in software protection, reverse engineering, program analysis, and binary deobfuscation. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Verona, graduating with honors, and works at emproof, focusing on software protection and the challenges of analyzing and understanding compiled software.

His research explores the relationship between program analysis and code obfuscation, with particular emphasis on how software transformations affect the ability of automated tools to recover program behavior. His interests span static analysis, binary analysis, decompilation, reverse engineering, and techniques for analyzing and simplifying obfuscated code.

In 2025, he co-authored Assessing the Effectiveness of the Tigress Obfuscator Against MOPSA and BinaryNinja, published at CheckMATE. The paper evaluates the effectiveness of obfuscation techniques and their impact on source-level static analysis and binary-level decompilation.

Beyond academic research, Nicolò develops and contributes to tools for reverse engineering and software analysis. His projects include obfuscation_analysis, a Binary Ninja plugin for analyzing and simplifying obfuscated code; Pocket, an obfuscator for mixed Boolean-arithmetic expressions; and ptxNinja, a tool for reverse engineering NVIDIA GPU code represented in the PTX virtual instruction set.

His research also extends to binary datasets and software evolution. In 2026, he co-authored ASSEMBLAGE-DEEPHISTORY: A Cross-Build Binary Dataset with Temporal Coverage, a research work addressing the availability of binary data across multiple software builds and points in time, supporting research into binary analysis and changes between program versions.

Across his research, engineering work, and open-source contributions, Nicolò focuses on advancing the understanding, analysis, and protection of software against increasingly sophisticated obfuscation and reverse-engineering challenges.

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